Am 10/28/2015 01:27 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt:
On 28/10/15 09:41, JZA wrote:
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Jürgen Schmidt<jogischm...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 27/10/15 23:52, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
I was wondering whether we should remember Ian Lynch at the end of the
4.1.2 Release announcement, with a sentence like
"The OpenOffice community dedicates version 4.1.2 to the memory of Ian
Lynch, a member of the OpenOffice Project Management Committee and a key
contributor to marketing and education efforts, who passed away earlier
this year" [of course please adjust and fix in case]
I have no idea on whether this is appropriate or not. I'm rather neutral
on the issue. Feedback welcome. Our memorial for Ian is at
http://www.apache.org/memorials/ian_lynch.html
my personal opinion is that we should keep the release announcement
focused on the product. People behind and/or involved the project can be
addressed in a separate blog where we can also remember project members
who passed away.
People leave the project or became less active (including me) and new
people started to become more active and do more and more. I suggest to
focus on the new fresh blood that can make the difference in the future.
Juergen
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I disagree with that view. To focus on the product, well we already have
companies for that. We are not a company, we are a community. And we dont
have 'products' we have 'projects'. The difference? well to start a project
is something that people can participate, not only purchase. So people
participation is key to the project. People are key to the project.
FLOSS communities like KDE, Gnome, etc, have struggled but also succeed in
adressing the people behind it. This is just a great idea to do exactly
that in our community.
Also the last line doesn't really make sense, how can we 'focus on the new
fresh blood' exactly? You mean dedicating the release after some n00b who
just got in the project, or writing a blog post about them... How can we
focus on fresh blood if they havent done anything yet, what would we write
about exactly?
I think you misunderstand me, I simply mean that we should keep it
separately. An announcement for a new release is about the release and
nothing else.
It can be possible to write about the people who are currently mainly
driving the project and remember people like Ian who passed away. But
again I would do this separately from a release announcement.
People like Damjan for example who really does a good job should be or
can be interviewed to learn about the motivation and work areas he
focusing currently.
+1 I see it like Juergen. O course we should and must mentioned such
topics. But it has nothing to do with a specific release.
Marcus
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